How Can I Find Out if My Community has a Volunteer Centre?
Volunteer Centres:
- provide easy access to a wide variety of volunteer opportunities in your area
- foster and develop volunteerism in the community
- encourage people to volunteer
- are local and accessible
- connect people to their community
- raise awareness of the power of voluntary service
- recognize the contributions of volunteers
- help voluntary organizations, and other groups and individuals that work with volunteers, do a better job recruiting, managing and retaining volunteers
- help voluntary organizations, and other groups and individuals that work with volunteers, to do a better job recruiting, managing and retaining volunteers
- provide information about volunteering.
In Ontario there are 26 Volunteer Centres and across Canada there are over 200 Volunteer Centres.
How do I find out if my community has a Volunteer Centre:
You can access Volunteer Canada’s Volunteer Centre Directory by clicking HERE. On this site you can narrow down your search to the province of your choice, and you can view the map for a visual look on each centre’s location.
When you find a Volunteer Centre near you, go ahead and look up their website by clicking on the name of the centre. You can look up volunteer opportunities and other helpful information on their site.
You can also phone them if you wish — just find “Contact” on their website — the phone number should be listed. Or scroll to the bottom of their home page, the phone number should be listed there.
A service offered by Volunteer Toronto (Toronto’s Volunteer Centre) is to book an appointment with a Volunteer Advisor! You can call 416-961-6888 ext. 232 or email advisors@volunteertoronto.ca.
Other Volunteer Centres across the country may provide a similar service.
More information can be found at Volunteer Canada HERE.
